Taylormade, the king of drivers, has done it again. Make sure you put the correct loft settings to have the best game possible. Adjust the loft with 12 different settings from 8 degrees to 12 degrees includes 5 upright lofts. So whether you want to hit a high draw or need help correcting your slice, the r1 tuning app will tell you how and where to adjust your settings.
Lie angles listed are intended to be a reference chart only. Its in the top 3 bestselling golf club drivers and has dozens of popular alternatives in the same price range, such as callaway womens xr driver or taylormade m2. It is a great golf club, which offers many options. Taylormade golf recommend using this app whilst on the range during the practice sessions so that players can provide the app with accurate feedback on their shot shape before and after they have adjusted the r1 driver into the recommended settings. He is the man behind the club so who better to talk to about its amazing adjustment ability. You have your sweet r15 driver but havent a clue how to adjust it. There are two ways to adjust the driver face and head the loft sleeve and ytrack. How to adjust settings on your taylormade r1 driver. During testing of the new r1 driver from taylor made, we found that the standard shaft and the new hosel were hitting the ball very high. Taylormade has unveiled their most technologically advanced driver to date. R1 gives the golfer 12 loftsleeve settings and 7 faceangle positions, as well as two movable shotshape weights. Tune your new r1 driver and make it your1 with our purposebuilt r1 tuning app. The r9, with true adjustability in the form of a twistable loft sleeve, came out in late 2008, and the r11, with a choice of eight loft settings and adjustable face angle.
The new taylormade r1 driver comes in a one club suits all format with loft interchangeable between 8 and 12 degrees. Hello everybody i have a taylormade r1 and i was wondering about the interchangeable weights for the driver. Taylormade r1 shaft flex swing speed help sign in to follow this. Taylormade r1 20 the problem with taylormade drivers january 4, 20 january. On both sleeves there is an option for an upright lie setting, its just one setting and only affects the degree of lie vs. While the taylormade r1 driver is a beautiful piece of technology, its not for the faint of heart. Questions about the r1 driver and my horrible slice. Well, the best you can do is to get it to neutral by turning the face adjustment to 3 on the. No longer do golfers have to worry about buying the wrong loft.
The new r1 continues taylormades line of adjustable drivers by offering the greatest range of adjustability of any driver in the brands history. According to taylormades researchers, 80% of golfers are playing the wrong loft and 24% are playing a loft thats off by 2 degrees or more. Find your nearest taylormade retailer to take your tuning to. Well the r1 has a much wider range of adjustable options so taylormade say that this is one driver for everyone. The r1 tuning app can help you get the most out of your r1 driver to create a shot shape or fix a shot shape. Now, some four months later, taylormade is officially releasing the taylormade r1 v2 tp driver, a. The r1 has been designed with 12 loft options and seven face angle settings, as well as the brands famous movable weight technology but despite the high level of adjustability, its an intuitive bit of kit that is straight forward to use. There is more to the taylormade r1 driver than just the paint, it is the most adjustable driver tm has ever made. Taylormade r1 driver tuning guide golf warehouse yumpu. The eight settings of what taylormade calls flight control. The r1 tuning app can help you get the most out of your r1 driver to create. The r11 was comfortably the mosteagerly awaited driver in recent times and with taylormades army of tour professionals all over the world spreading the white message, its presence in the game seems already wellestablished, despite only being launched in. This factory adaptor allows for 7 standard and 5 upright loft settings for a total of 12 different loftlie settings.
Taylormade loftsleeve technology promotes optimal launch angle. If you have the time to tinker and dial it in, you will find excellent results and might even be able to pick up some benefits over previous drivers. The new r1 is supposed to allow you to change the loft from around 8 degrees to 12 degrees. Taylormade m1 is a popular option at the top of the price range. Chris ryan pro jon greathead hcp 8 bryan slater hcp 12 darren slater hcp 16 comments.
Simply put, you can adjust the setting to change the ball flight. You can adjust the face angle with 7 different settings including neutral. Trying to decide whether buying the new taylormade r1 driver is worth the price over last years r11s model. I used to have a nike dymo str8 fit that i used for years at all neutral settings. Taylormades tom kroll explains how the new taylormade r1 driver lets you independently adjust face angle, weight bias and loft. I hit both drivers to find the most optimal loftface angle setting. I came within a tapin of a hole in one with the burner 2.
In a survey we found we found that 86% of people who bought an adjustable driver, never changed the settings off neutral. Unless, of course, youre trying to dial in your taylormade r1 driver for the first time. Its first semitransformable driver, the r7, had movable back weights and debuted in 2004. Shaft material is incredibly important for a driver. The r9, with true adjustability in the form of a twistable loft sleeve, came out in late 2008, and the r11, with a choice of eight loft settings and adjustable face angle, in early 2011.
Its hard to do but fitters around the country support our opinion that the 20 r1 driver can stand proud. Thus youre going to have to set the r1 up to suit you. To have accurate and correct measurements, you will need to have someone other than you gather the information. When i bought my r1, my ball flight changed and i needed to dial it in to my swing. How do i choose taylormade r1 loft settings 3balls blog. Taylormade r1 driver, get the setting right on this fantastic driver and hit it lower, but get. Im sure youd need to know more about my swing problems, but i. I know they make different weights for them and being a slower swinger mid 80s would i benefit in replacing the 10g weight with say a 6g or. As with any club taylormade makes, they have designed an enormous amount of technology into the driver. Taylormade r1 driver, how to avoid getting it wrong foregolf.
If you want to counteract your slice, set the club closed using the tweak setting that will allow you to hit the ball straight via swing mechanics. If you want a driver that drives lower, you will want to go with a lower angle such as 10. This entry is not so much about the adjustability of the r1 driver from taylormade as it is my adjustability to the new r1 driver. There are 12 different loft settings over a range of 8 to 12 degrees including 2 upright positions. Bold moves visually and performance tweaks make what was a great driver perform better. The taylormade r15 driver is for best suited for golfers looking to reduce theirs over spin rates of the driver for increased distance. Any suggestions on the settings for my driver or is replacing it worthwhile. The r1 from taylormade is one of the best adjustable drivers around you can try to strike some golf balls using this club and see if you are doubtful. I should probably also mention that while taylormade isnt calling the r1 black a limited edition model, they certainly arent doing a full production run either. So it is essential to find the ideal settings for each player. This meant long hours at the range and dozens of buckets of balls. With a total of 168 possible setting combinations 12 loft settings, 7 face angle settings and 2 weight adjustments. This setting is 180 degrees from the neutral setting. The taylormade r9 driver gives you the option to change the face angle, loft and lie of the club, as well as the center of gravity.
If im being honest about my own excitement level about the spring 20 products from taylormade, the rbz stage 2 driver is the one spot where im not feeling it. There are dozens of newer golf club drivers on the market. How to adjust a taylormade r1 driver, for loft, lie angle, and fade or draw bias. Taylormade often uses graphite for their drivers, but they do have some with steel shafts as well. Taylormade r1 driver, get the setting right on this fantastic driver and hit it lower, but get the shaft right and hit it miles. As far as adjustable drivers go, you cant get much more adjustable than the r1 driver. This is darcy schmidt at golf stuff in welland ontario, 540.
Let us take you through a brief tutorial on how to make your new driver fit your swing. Find golf club tradein and resales values for over 4,000 models of used golf clubs at the pga value guide, from leading manufacturers such as callaway, taylormade, taylor made, titleist, ping, odyssey, nike, cleveland, mizuno, cobra, adams, wilson. This means that there will only be one model and then you change the loft to suit. I have been using the taylormade burner superfast 2. Feels solid in your hand, easy to work the ball, able to adjust for an upright swing, paired with a low torque shaft works for me. I have the r11s the driver just before the r1 and i believe the r1 sleeve is similar but with more settingsnotches. For the r1 driver the first piece of noticeable technology is the capability of the driver to change loft. With 168 possible settings, you could spend the rest of your life trying to set it up. Features and benefits of the taylormade 20 r1 driver. If you want a lighter weight driver with more flexibility. The paint on the crown of taylormades r1 driver will get all the buzz early in. If you want the best fit, it is going to take some time to get all the adjustments just right to find the optimal numbers for your swing.
I provide screenshots from their manual for each and a link to the manual the loftsleeve allows you to adjust more than loft. The taylormade r1 driver is the longest, most adjustable driver taylormade has brought to market for the 20 season, an excellent option for golfers from a wide range of skill levels. Taylormade have unveiled their new r1 driver, the followup product to the massivelysuccessful r11s. This is darcy schmidt at golf stuff in welland ontario, 540 niagara street. Taylormade r1 v2 tp driver to hit the market golfwrx. Unfollow taylormade r1 driver to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. Hit 70 balls and consistently swinging 88 93 mph and maybe 10 times clocked 94 96 mph with both shafts. Taylormade updated the original r11s and rocketballz line with the trendier r1 and stage 2 rocketballz products. One driver model that can be tuned to fit tour pros and amateurs alike. Taylormade havent released a driver for years im excited. Taylormade r1 20 the problem with taylormade drivers. It seems pretty clear the intent is to all but guarantee there will be more demand than supply. Taylormade golf free r1 driver tuning app mygolfway.
Prior to the r1 the golfer had the flexibility to change the loft around a degree. Weve got the low down on how the r1 matches up with the r11s from one of. M5 driver offers a lot of freedom in terms of personalizing launch conditions and performanceyou can set the driver weights forward for low spin or all way back and to the perimeter for max forgiveness and. Callaway big bertha alpha 815 double black diamond driver. Results show that 80% of golfers are playing the wrong loft, and that 24% had the incorrect loft by at least 2degrees the r1, with 12 loft options and seven face angle settings, helps solve that. By recognizing this problem, taylormade has developed a driver that gives golfers from tour pros to amateurs more options to help them achieve optimal performance. With the loft, lie and movable weights, the r1 components give a huge margin of shotshaping, so it is recommended for amateurs to take advice from a professional when it comes to customization. Personally, i have a solid swing plane but i have a tendency to. The taylormade r1 driver is the most adjustable driver to ever be released by taylormade. With an updated look, technology and cool color scheme, be sure to check out the new products from taylormade. The graphics on the crown can be distracting, stock grip was the.
431 338 973 332 1268 1343 1135 1421 1404 1171 1442 578 415 828 546 548 1244 710 633 1120 215 768 1390 1386 1237 555 1176 462 35 383 1476 1109 1116 233 905 1117 1018 1436 215 565